Houston Ballet's From Houston to the World, Sept. 18-28, offers three ballets created right here in the Bayou City, but there's much more to the program than that fact.
Beginning in 1852 and continuing for more than two decades, the French emperor Napoleon III, along with his apparatchik—Baron Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine—embarked on a massive public works program to regularize and sanitize the medieval agglomeration that was Paris.
